about transition circle east

Welcome to the Transition Circle East blog where you can find all the news and reviews about Transition initatives in the Eastern Region.

We started at the Transition East second gathering in Diss in November 2009 where 18 of the region's Transition villages, towns, cities and bio-regions came together to discuss how communities can shift from living in fossil-fuelled culture to a low-carbon way of working.

29 initatives are listed below, as well as some of the events that are currently taking place in and around Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

This course is normally run on a weekend as a very intensive 9-5 course. I know after delivering one of these courses I feel pretty exhausted and I am sure most of the participants go away very happy but also exhausted, and especially if you have a job or children this weekend format can be inaccessible.

In the transition training pool we are thinking about widening access to the growing range of courses available, so running the introduction course to transition as an evening class seemed like an easy step. The course will run on Tuesday evenings 7 pm till 9.30, for 6 weeks. We will cover; the outer context for transition, peak oil and climate change, how to raise awareness and engage with different sections of society, how to run an open space meeting, the inner transition, and some inner work exercises, visioning a positive future, where transition is going in the future, how to initiate groups or if most people are in them already we explore group dynamics. And more !

The teaching techniques are interactive and creative and fun. And as a group we also learn a huge amount from each other and what we are doing in our transition groups or areas. We can also build networks from this course that will support you and your group in the future.

The course is intended for people starting out in Transition but there is a huge amount of tools techniques and information in the course for those not only starting out but wanting to broaden and deepen their understanding on transition. For those further along the road a new course called Transition THRIVE is being piloted currently.